Modeling Patient-Specific Deformable Mitral Valves.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
; 32(3): 1368-1373, 2018 06.
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| ID: mdl-29221976
ABSTRACT
Medical imaging has advanced enormously over the last few decades, revolutionizing patient diagnostics and care. At the same time, additive manufacturing has emerged as a means of reproducing physical shapes and models previously not possible. In combination, they have given rise to 3-dimensional (3D) modeling, an entirely new technology for physicians. In an era in which 3D imaging has become a standard for aiding in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease, this visualization now can be taken further by bringing the patient's anatomy into physical reality as a model. The authors describe the generalized process of creating a model of cardiac anatomy from patient images and their experience creating patient-specific dynamic mitral valve models. This involves a combination of image processing software and 3D printing technology. In this article, the complexity of 3D modeling is described and the decision-making process for cardiac anesthesiologists is summarized. The management of cardiac disease has been altered with the emergence of 3D echocardiography, and 3D modeling represents the next paradigm shift.
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Ecocardiografia Tridimensional
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Valva Mitral
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article